It was terrifying.

It wasn’t the sudden, painfully massive surge in pressure that set my muscles on fire.

It wasn’t the guards that had now grown so small by comparison, and seemed to be shrinking further by the second.

It wasn’t even the hungry look in the newcomer’s eyes as he gazed at me in admiration, his drooling maw wide open and ready to begin enjoying the same bounty that had made me the shuttering mass that I’ve become.

No.

What terrified me was how eager I was for it all to be-